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Subject:    Re: [R]  Date read correctly from CSV, then reformatted incorrectly by R
From:       peter dalgaard <pdalgd () gmail ! com>
Date:       2021-11-23 8:40:28
Message-ID: B8068C52-05C0-435E-8792-76DF31C5E4F5 () gmail ! com
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It reads other formats _if you specify them_. After all, no computer (or hu=
man) can tell whether 11/03/1959 is November 3 or March 11 without further =
hinting. So it tries the two ISO-like formats and leaves other cases for th=
e user.

-pd

> On 20 Nov 2021, at 21:22 , Philip Monk <prmonk@gmail.com> wrote:
> =

> Thanks, Andrew.  I didn't realise as.Date *only* read two formats, I
> think I was tripped up by using %y instead of %Y, =


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